Open Mic Quotes

#1. Before doing my first open mic, I was sitting in the back watching all these comedians banter back and forth and fire jokes and up each other, and I thought, 'This is where I wanna be.'

Patton Oswalt

#2. I advise wannabe singers to form a band, practise in your garage if you have to, but do as many charity or open mic shows as possible to get experience. I sang for seven years before getting a record deal, and I was already loving what I was doing. I just got lucky and got discovered.

Bonnie Tyler

#3. Bullying new comics at open mic nights? NOT ON MY WATCH!

Papa CJ

#4. My dad played in different clubs and open mic nights. But he mostly walked dogs. A lot of dogs.

Rachel Trachtenburg

#5. This is a big fucking deal!" --Joe Biden, caught on an open mic congratulating President Barack Obama during the health care signing ceremony, Washington, D.C., March 23, 2010

Joe Biden

#6. THAT NIGHT, AT ONE OF LONDON'S OPEN-MIC SESSIONS, A YOUNG comedian enjoyed his first success, telling the tale of the naked Yank who mugged him for a tuxedo.

Anthony Chapman

#7. When I performed at 'Open Mic U.K.' I had this connection with the audience that I'd never felt before, and I loved it. It was my first big thing, and looking out into the crowd ... was just amazing.

Birdy

#8. I wrote my first song, 'Conversion', to this little hip-hop instrumental. I went to an open-mic, plugged my iPod into the P.A., and sang over the beat.

Leon Bridges

#9. I would show up at any venue that had an open mic.

Ludacris

#10. In general, I'm pretty shy and nervous about a lot of things. For me to get on stage for the first time took so many times at an open mic before I finally got on stage and did it.

Tyler Hilton

#11. Whatever you want to do in the industry, do it on the smallest level at first. If you want to be a writer, write a screenplay in your house. If you want to be an actor, put on a one-man show. If you want to be a stand-up comedian, go to an open mic.

Ike Barinholtz

#12. I was 18 when I started. I was hanging out with some friends and they asked if I had tried stand-up before. I hadn't, but I thought: 'What the hell?' So I went to an open mic night, and I liked it.

Aziz Ansari

#13. My first open mic was fantastic. I crushed. And my second mic was as bad as my first one was good.

Dana Gould

#14. I went to a performance-art high school, and a teacher there was signing me up for open-mic nights at the comedy club. I think about it now, and I think, 'Well, that may be inappropriate,' but it was great!'

Margaret Cho

#15. Before I had a record deal, I was living in New York and playing anywhere I could, from somebody's house to an open mic to coffeeshops.

Langhorne Slim

#16. The days of an open mic night when I'd rock up in an old jumper are over.

Katy B

#17. I spent two years playing open mic nights in Brighton, and I heard more and more people saying, 'You should give it a go in London.'

James Bay

#18. I would. I'm just too, I'm kind of, a pussy, I guess. That's the problem. But, no, I'd love to. I think everybody should do open mics. I think it's very healthy for your soul. So yeah, I'd love to do it again, but I don't know. It's like I'm cutting a record if I do open mic now, so, I don't know.

Robert Pattinson

#19. My first open mic, I drank a full pitcher of beer by myself. I wasn't afraid of being in front of people as much as, Is this funny?

Doug Stanhope

#20. Nothing that is will always be.- Open Mic Singer

Geoffrey Thorne

#21. When I was in college, I would go out, and I would go to these open mic nights at Stitches and Nick's Comedy Stop, so I was going to classes during the day, and then at night, I would be signing up on the lists.

Greg Fitzsimmons

#22. The state of the world calls out for poetry to save it.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#23. How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and oil, growing, working, dying, with hardly a thought of wind, and sky, and fields of grain, seeing only machine-made beauty, the mineral-like quality of life?

Charles Lindbergh

#24. The bump of ego on his skull had swollen large, so he saw the whole world in terms of what it could give him.

Frederik Pohl

#25. Change forced by others is difficult to accept. And too rapid a change causes instability.

Amish Tripathi

#26. Yet the world of 2014 is already a world in which culture is releasing itself from the shackles of biology. Our

Yuval Noah Harari

#27. My generation were all careerists.

Zaha Hadid

#28. There's a drive in me that won't allow me to do certain things that are easy.

Johnny Depp

#29. You are my life now. this"_he waved a hand dismissively around him at the club-"the fey, everything, it all falls into place once you accept me"
-kennan

Melissa Marr

#30. My IQ is somewhere between Spiro Agnew's and Albert Einstein's.

Dick Cavett

#31. I care what people who know me think of me.

Jenna Bush

#32. I had been given a wonderful opportunity to be a novelist - a chance you just don't get every day.

Haruki Murakami

#33. The little mind who loves itself, will wr'te and think with the vulgar; but the great mind will be bravely eccentric, and scorn the beaten road, from universal benevolence.

Oliver Goldsmith

#34. To move on, you must surrender to your pain and accept it as your own. Only then will you heal inside.

L.J. Vanier